Miller v. Reddin’s Empirical Analysis
422 F.2d 1264 · 1970
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 1 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently March 2014 · most notably Ethridge V. Harbor House Restaurant (1988), Nos. 93-55478, 93-55695 (1995)
25 federal appellate · 1 district · 7 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1461
Relies on Foster v. California · American Cyanamid Co. v. McGhee · Hyde Construction Co. v. Koehring Co.
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) Voluntary Dismissal: Effect Thereof (1) By plaintiff; by Stipulation. * * * an action may be dismissed by the plaintiff without order of court (i) by filing a notice of dismissal at any time before service by the adverse party of an answer or of a motion for summary judgment, whichever first occurs * * *.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Where written order or judgment is to be prepared by counsel and settled, no memorandum of decision or opinion or any minutes made by the clerk of the court's decision shall constitute entry of judgment under said Rules.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Miller v. Reddin“the date when this court, by minute order in open court at the hearing herein, did grant said motions to dismiss, which minute order of August 5, 1968 is hereby approved, ratified and confirmed,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Miller v. Reddin
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.